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It was properly cold at one point this week.

You might have heard something on the Internet about HTTP/2 and no build JavaScript?

I attended Rails World in Amsterdam this week.

I wanted to stash only a few files this week and it hadn’t occurred to me that git stash would take a --patch, but like many other git commands, it does (try out add and checkout with --patch).

People’s behaviour at music gigs is getting worse.

Four days of this week were spent in Wrocław, Poland.

I wasn’t entirely correct about being able to move the PiP window in macOS.

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule | The New Yorker How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

Wavesurfer.js – very nice.

I learnt this week that you can adopt a phone box from BT for a £1!

id Software released the Quake II rerelease game source 🔥 This repository contains the game code for the 2023 rerelease of Quake II I tried to load some MP3s onto my iPhone this week.

The side project has fallen off a cliff.

I’ve been watching Steven Soderbergh’s new sci-fi comedy series Command Z.

TIL you can turn off IRB autocompletion for the Rails console like this: bin/rails console -- --noautocomplete A lot of effort seems to be going into IRB improvements in recent years, but I still find that the completions always seems to get in the way.

Stick this in your ~/.irbrc 😎 def pbcopy(data) IO.popen("pbcopy", "w") { _1.write(data) } end …say you have a bunch of data in your ruby console and you want to get it to your clipboard.

“The Titan Submersible Was ‘an Accident Waiting to Happen’” Soon afterward, Rush asked OceanGate’s director of finance and administration whether she’d like to take over as chief submersible pilot.

“MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information” MDN’s new ‘ai explain’ button on code blocks generates human-like text that may be correct by happenstance, or may contain convincing falsehoods. this is a strange decision for a tech…

Quite a good week in terms of work.

JavaScript got better while I wasn’t looking – another great article from Eevee.

I was excited (and surprised, because I believed that Oban’s design relied heavily on Postgres-specific features) to see that it gained SQLite support since I last used it.

Ruby apparently has an itself method.

Well, well.

Old CSS, new CSS – the nostalgia absolutely drips off this.

You can specify inline routes inside your Rails config/routes.rb.

Add translations to your app with ChatGPT with instant18n?

“Why ChatGPT Won’t Replace Coders Just Yet” The “bullshit” problem turns up in code, too For a while now I’ve experienced compilation issues when installing new Erlang versions with asdf.

The task I was stressing about is now done and dusted so I can put that behind me, and I worked four days this week 👌 Reddit are going to start charging for their API.

Flowbite is a component framework for Tailwind CSS.

Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything No-one enjoys writing boilerplate.

TIL about Vim’s :drop command Vim will open the file if it’s not already open, or jump to the open buffer if it is.

“We updated our RSA SSH host key” At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.

Arc from The Browser Company continues to impress and I’m now using it full time.

It’s cool that Brompton are using Raspberry Pis and Python to power the production stations in their factory.

The Courtyard by Cabel Sasser Whatever you’re working on right now, whatever it might be, I ask: try to leave a little space for a courtyard. power_assert is interesting.

Development environment improvements were on the agenda this week.

Neovim in 100 Seconds – A nice intro into what Neovim actually is in only 100 seconds.

Consider writing your feature request as a poem.

Last two working days this week.

I took myself to see Empire of Light on Thursday.

import { utility} from StackOverflow When you want a simple utility function that isn’t part of the standard library, what do you do?

From Kevin Newton: In Ruby, the expression in the rescue clause that captures a variable can be a method call.

This was the best “back to work” after Christmas that I’ve had in a while.

How to communicate effectively as a developer is really great (via Chris Coyier).

TIL about the Dhall configuration language.

This video - Rust Is Easy (The COMPILER teaches you!)

A slightly shorter week again.

I still haven’t embraced Mastodon, but I do plan to.

An Antidote to Burnout - be thankful.

Nice trick to show the result of a Lua expression in Neovim.